What's My Motivation?

By Michael Simkins

As a boy Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone. While his friends were out getting laid and stoned he was tucked up at home dreaming of his name in lights of holding an audience rapt of perhaps becoming a TV heart-throb or having someone anyone ask for his autograph in the supermarket. This is the true story of an obsessive pursuit of acting fame. It is a life marked by occasional hard-fought successes and routine helpings of ritual humiliation: scout hut Gilbert and Sullivan dodgy rock operas sewage farm theatre workshop Christmas panto hell straight-to-video film flops leading roles in Crimewatch reconstructions and dressing up as a chicken to advertise TV dinners. It is a hilarious tale of turgid theatre tights trusses and tonsil tennis with Timothy Spall.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0091897491
• ISBN13: 9780091897499
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Ebury
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Laugh aloud

One of the funniest books about acting ever written. A real hoot from cover to cover. Anyone who is interested in the performing arts will love it and laugh aloud.